Preparation
By the age of 17 I was rocking it. I had little idea what I was doing except trying to make it easy for me to be a good Christian. By this age the narcissism that was going to be my defining attribute at 13 was no longer going to be so. I had developed objectivity to the point where I was confident enough to start challenging the religious teachings with which I had been brought up. I was on my own path and with the foundation I had built over three years I was well on my way to fulfilling all the requirements for the user access level which I now hold. I required no oversight, no mentoring, no monitoring. I had it completely under my control. With no idea this was true. And then Marc Durant, a boy who had had nothing to do with me for a year and a half and had even super blanked me when I casually tried conversation a year prior, invited me over to his place to watch a movie. For no reason. A few months later after we had become close friends I asked him why he did it. He was a cool c...